Not very rewarding - Anonymous employee Walgreens Employee Review

1.0
9 Jul 2009
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Good health benefits. Very lucarative intial offers promises are seldom kept ofcourse.

Cons

Initial offers are very lucarative but most of the promises are seldom kept. Pay is way less compared to other industries of all kinds(similar and non-similar). No career advancement what so ever, being a best or outstanding performer contantly doesn't get anything nor take career anywhere. Managers are just dummies who do nothing but report progress of their team, they are very reluctant to help their hard-working employees get what they deserve. Never seen any company encourage good/great talent walk out of the door as WAG does. Although restructuring has promised a lot of things nothing has been improved so far. No post-hire learning oppurtunities, neither the manager knows what may be needed nor the employee. Very less communication between middle management and employees. Hardly anything is finished as promised. Worst of all things lot of name-game plays keep happening.

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Cons

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3.0
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Pros

Can be a fun environment. All in whom your staff is. Operating photo was fun and building projects for the customers. Learning about pharmacy operations.

Cons

Work life balance and low pay for what is expected. Not having enough payroll to effectively run a store. My store ran FE on a 320 hour a week budget. That was barely enough to get buy and meet the expectations put out by the company. I was never able to keep a full leadership staff. When a leader called out, I had to stay. There were days I was called away from my own dinner table. SM's were forced to be in the pharmacy for more than half of their day regardless as to what is happening in the FE. I worked over 50 hours a week and barely got to spend time with my family. If I wasn't at the store I was getting a phone call and having to go back to the store.

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